Bug 888860

Summary:	qemu does not quit after guest halt
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Karel Volný <kvolny>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, dwmw2, itamar, pbonzini, rjones, scottt.tw, virt-maint
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Description Karel Volný 2012-12-19 16:37:12 UTC

Description of problem:
If I shut down the virtual machine from within the guest, the machine stays running, qemu does not quit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-system-x86-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. qemu-img create -f qcow2 F18.qcow2 10G
2. qemu-kvm -m 1024 -cdrom bfo.iso -boot d F18.qcow2
3. install F18 as the guest OS
4. after installation, login as root in the guest
5. run "halt" in the guest
6. wait ...
7. switch to qemu monitor via ctrl+alt+f2
8. run "info status" in the monitor

Actual results:
the qemu window displays the text:
[   83.659469] System halted.

qemu-kvm is running

you get "VM status: running" in the monitor

Expected results:
the qemu window disappears
qemu-kvm quits, returning to shell
you cannot switch to the monitor as the window is gone already

Additional info:
see also bug #835493, bug #835497, I guess these are the same

Comment 1 Paolo Bonzini 2012-12-20 09:25:05 UTC

"halt" in the guest does not power it off after it reaches runlevel 0 (or whatever systemd calls it :)).  "poweroff" does that.

Comment 2 Karel Volný 2012-12-20 11:34:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> "halt" in the guest does not power it off after it reaches runlevel 0 (or
> whatever systemd calls it :)).  "poweroff" does that.

hm, I have always thought that "halt" is just an alias for "shutdown -h"

then we have an inconsistency here - a regression; but knowing what to look for, reading F15 release notes, I see we call this bug a feature, as usual with systemd :-(